Chapter 264 Abraham Family
At night, Angel arrived at the location Emlyn White mentioned, Wildey Street in the South Bridge District.
Because she was worried that the cursed "master key" would affect today's actions, she left the key at her home on Red Rose Street before leaving.
Fortunately, the lock-picking skills she inherited from Cole Granger were still fresh. She came to 32 Wildey Street, looked around the house, and found no obvious abnormalities. Then she used the lock-picking tools to open the back door and entered the two-story building from the kitchen.
It seemed that no one had lived here for a long time. Angel touched the stove and found that there was a thin layer of dust on it. A pungent smell came from the storage compartment below, which was probably from rotten food.
Walking through the kitchen and into the living room, Angel used her dark vision to discover that the shelves and drawers here had been turned into a mess. It was probably done by the thieves who had visited before. With such professionals around, Angel had no hope of finding other valuable items. Besides, she didn't come here to loot the deceased's belongings.
Next to the living room was a staircase leading to the second floor. She walked up the stairs, and before she reached the second floor, she felt a chill surrounding her.
There's something weird here!
Angel turned on his clairvoyance and looked up the stairs, but found nothing unusual. The chill came and went quickly, as if it was just an illusion.
Taking out the dagger from her waist, she walked up the stairs carefully one step at a time and came to the corner of the stairs.
There was a figure on the platform at the corner. He had his back to Angel and his face pressed against the wall at the corner, as if he was standing there reflecting on his mistakes. Hearing footsteps, the man with thick black hair turned around and looked over here.
His body didn't move, but his head had already turned half a circle.
In Angel's spiritual vision, the corpse without any spiritual light just looked at her, its face full of fear, its eyes bulging, as if it was extremely frightened.
This strange scene made her heart tighten, and she was about to summon black flames to "disinfect" this guy who seemed to have come back to life. The protruding eyeballs of the corpse fell off and landed on the wooden stairs with a "bang", followed by his heavy head and torso that was no longer supported by the invisible force.
The corpse that was standing just now fell down in front of Angel, its limbs went limp, and its eyeballs and head rolled all over the ground.
What's going on? A zombie? A ghost?
Angel's knowledge of the occult was limited, but she knew very well that it was impossible for a normal human body to turn its head 180 degrees on its own, even a dead person could not do so.
Holding the dagger, she cautiously approached the body. After a brief inspection, she discovered that the man's neck had been completely broken and his eyes had been torn out of their sockets. He had been dead for at least a day. He was wearing a tight black suit and had a lot of change, jewelry, a dagger, and lock picking tools on him. He was likely a burglar.
Of course, it wasn't the person who "sent" the master key to Emlyn, but most likely someone else who had set his sights on this house, and he was obviously not as lucky as the former.
What’s strange is that there was no blood at the scene, so this was probably not the first scene.
She walked around the body and went to the second-floor hallway. She explored each room, finding every door open. The bedrooms and study showed signs of rummaging through, with worthless clothes and books scattered across the floor. One of the rooms had a street-facing window wide open, leading to a balcony. This was likely where the thief had entered.
Returning to the body with its head and body separated, Angel felt relieved when she saw everything was still the same as when she left. However, the strange atmosphere of the building still made her alert and she never let go of the dagger.
The first and second floors have been explored, leaving only the first thief to discover the master key and the location where the Abraham family members died, which he had seen through divination through the magic mirror - the basement.
Angel walked down the wooden stairs, around the corpse, and then turned another corner and stepped onto the first floor...
No, this is not the living room on the first floor, but the corridor on the second floor. I went down from the second floor, climbed a total of 26 steps, and finally reached the second floor!
She quickly mobilized her spiritual power, and several invisible silk threads appeared around her. They floated like spider silk without wind, and they could attack when they advanced and form protection when they retreated. Surrounded by the silk threads, Angel slowly turned around and looked at the stairs she had just walked down.
The stairs went down one step at a time, and at the corner, the headless body was still there.
A trace of cold sweat appeared on Angel's forehead. When she walked up the stairs just now, she didn't feel anything unusual at all. This was a bit like the effect of a "master key" that made people lost unknowingly. She was clearly heading east, but when she came to her senses, she was already west.
Of course, if she pressed the magic pocket watch and jumped directly to the streetlight outside the house, this power would no longer work. Countless experiences of getting lost told her that as long as she activated her extraordinary ability, she could easily get out of trouble.
Thinking of this, Angel was no longer anxious, but walked down the stairs again, walked around the corpse, counted the steps one by one, and walked to the end of the stairs.
Not surprisingly, she was back in the second-floor corridor.
Just as she was about to leave the house from the second-floor balcony and pry the door open from the street to return to the first-floor living room, a cold wind suddenly blew from behind her, blowing Angel's long hair and neck, as if hugging her from behind.
"Bang——"
A black flame shot out from behind her and spread instantly along the invisible threads that had been laid between the stairs and corridors, shrouding the surroundings in flames darker than the night. She activated her spiritual vision and looked into the depths of the flames, where a translucent figure twisted and deformed in the cursed flames that had a special effect on spirits. It let out a low roar and then dissipated like smoke.
The black flames quickly disappeared without anything to burn. Angel put away his dagger, walked up the wooden stairs for the third time, counted to 26 steps, and stepped onto the flat ground.
This time, she successfully returned to the living room on the first floor.
It seemed that spirit was the cause of the corpse turning back and the stair maze... but where did it come from? The unfortunate thief, or the near-Beyond who died in the basement?
Angel found the stairs leading to the basement from behind the wooden ladder. She walked up the same 26 steps and entered the windowless room she had seen when she divined the origin of the "Master Key". She saw the flesh and blood that had once crawled and squirmed throughout the room, leaving traces of corrosion. She also saw a long table with iron pots, jars, and a notebook.
It's a pity that the thief who took the master key dared to enter here...
Angel sighed, walked to the table, picked up the brown-covered notebook, and flipped through it with the help of dark vision.
"This will be the starting point for the resurgence of Abraham, this cursed family!"
"I will record every key point."
Like an epitaph carved on a tombstone... Angel commented mercilessly and continued to read the rest of the text.
The notebook recorded all the family history that this unfortunate member of the Abraham family had learned, including their glory as the top nobles of the Tudor Dynasty in the Fourth Age, their decline after the War of the Four Emperors, and the subsequent terrible curse that enveloped all Abrahams.
Generation after generation of Extraordinary People who have tried to revive their family and advance through the ranks with this goal have all lost control or gone mad without exception. These crazy monsters often bring greater disasters to other family members around them, causing the bloodline of Abraham to gradually wither.
In order to prevent the entire family from disappearing in the long river of history, they can only live in scattered areas of the world as family units and no longer live together. In this way, even if a family member loses control and kills the entire family, it will not affect other families.
The father of the author of this notebook left his original family for the same reason and chose to become an ordinary person, get married and have children, and even did not plan to pass on the knowledge of occultism to the next generation. This kept him away from curses, but not from common diseases.
This father left the author when he was young, and his mother, overcome by grief, soon followed.
"It's heartbreaking, but it also means I'm free."
The notes read.
"Although my father didn't tell me about Beyonders and the occult in order to prevent the curse from passing on to me, I had to explore and understand it on my own. Fortunately, according to the family's orders, he gave me the potion formulas for 'Apprentice', 'Master of Magic', and 'Astrologer' before he died."
Following is the detailed potion recipe materials.
After reading this, Angel was filled with surprise. In order not to forget the potion formula, this member copied all three formulas into his notebook. Although it needs further verification, this trip of breaking into houses and picking locks can be said to be very fruitful.
The second half of the notes describes the descendant of Abraham's experiences exploring the mysticism and coming into contact with other Beyonder circles. With no mentor and no other family members to rely on, every step of his Beyonder journey was extremely difficult, but in the end...
"According to my knowledge of occult science, taking potions during a full moon is most conducive to advancement. I plan to become an 'apprentice' on the night of the full moon next week. From there, I'll restore the glory of the Abraham family!"
Sadly, this potion and his glory have now become the "Master Key"...
Angel felt sorry for Abraham, a man with great vision but a tragic fate, but he also had a doubt in his heart:
He had indeed been promoted during the blood moon yesterday, to the point of nearly losing control. However, taking the potion during a full moon would not actually cause similar problems. If he had lost control during a full moon, he might even have exploded into strange flesh and blood like Abraham. "No promotion during a full moon" had long been a rule in mysticism.
The only possibility is the "Curse of Abraham's Family" mentioned in the notes. Perhaps this curse makes all descendants of Abraham fear the full moon and the blood moon. This descendant who did not receive the correct inheritance used the general principles of mysticism and took the potion during the full moon, which triggered the curse in his blood and killed himself.
So, the curse on the master key is likely to come from the family curse of Abraham's family that has been passed down for thousands of years?
This reminded Angel of the "Magician" lady he met in the gray fog yesterday. She also heard strange whispers during the full moon, which made her on the verge of losing control. If it weren't for Mr. Fool's rescue, she might have died on a full moon night.
Could it be that she, too, was a descendant of Abraham? Would she have a clearer understanding of these curses?
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