Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Then, being bathed in the sun, and then being...
"Fall in love?" A hoarse voice came from behind her, with the ending tone slightly lowered.
Lin Miao clearly felt that the hand on her waist was moving dishonestly, and the fingertips were lightly rubbing the sensitive soft flesh that he had explored, which could make her surrender.
"...Are you jealous of this, Lord Errol?" She briefly let go of the burden in her heart, smiled happily, and pecked the demon's beautiful cheek. "You know, it's just a description."
"It's you I like."
The human girl's clear black eyes stared at him without blinking, and his face was reflected in the crystal clear water. He should have been happy about such a straightforward confession, but for no reason he felt a certain fear in his heart.
It was as if everything he had gained was too easy, it was easy for him to embrace his treasures, and it was easy for him to realize his long-cherished wish from the beginning to the end, even more so now or a hundred years ago.
The beauty is like a flower in the clouds. He climbed the ladder to the blue sky effortlessly to touch his flower, but it would only take a moment to fall from the clouds.
...People who have never seen the sun can certainly endure loneliness, but how can the demon who has been cared for by the sun and then rejected endure the next endless hundred years?
"Miaomiao will always..."
He only started talking, and Lin Miao didn't hear the rest for a long time. She said "Hmm?" in confusion and looked up to see his expression.
My eyes were covered by the large palm, and my vision became dark.
The devil seemed to laugh lightly.
He said, "Nothing."
"As you say."
*
When Lin Miao came out of the small building with a joyful smile, he successfully appreciated the shocked expression under Mrs. Capet's veil.
Following the "instructions" of her teacher, she gracefully raised her wrist, revealing the jade bracelet on it.
"Mother, President Klopp is truly a kind and enthusiastic good man (devil)," she sighed, seemingly unintentionally. "He said he sensed divine favor in me, and that I'm very likely to awaken my talent for light in the future!"
"Look, he also gave me this bracelet, saying it contains spiritual power that can resist the influence of evil spirits..."
"impossible!"
A sharp and shrill female voice interrupted her "show-off", and Mrs. Cape's expression became distorted, almost full of hatred for her own daughter.
"You can't possibly be blessed by God!!"
Lin Miao was stunned, and quickly grasped the message revealed in her words: "...Isn't my mother also a member of the Bright Association? Why isn't my daughter favored?"
"Because..." Mrs. Capet was dominated by anger. She was about to continue speaking, but suddenly closed her mouth as if she had violated some taboo.
"In short, you can't be an awakened one..." Her tone was filled with resentment, "The vice president might have made a mistake. Give the bracelet back to him!"
"...My daughter refused, but the vice president said that once he gave something away, there was no reason to ask for it back." Lin Miao put on a tearful look and said timidly, "How about mother return it to the vice president for me?"
Mrs. Capet's face looked as if she wanted to eat someone.
As conceited as she was, she never considered the possibility that Lin Miao was lying. The spiritual power on the bracelet could not be faked, and Julia could not force the powerful Klopp.
She could only curse Klopp in her heart about what tricks he was playing, but she didn't dare to really conflict with him on the association's territory.
"...Go home." She turned and walked towards the carriage, her voice sounding like she was squeezed out from between her teeth.
Lin Miao lagged behind her by a few steps, lowering her eyes slightly.
Is it impossible to awaken divine power? She finally understood what it meant to dig deeper and gain more.
Although she felt a little disappointed that she couldn't get anything out of Kapev right away, it also made her look forward to the evening's exploration even more.
…
In the dead of night, moonlight streams through the carved window lattices, coating the manor's lawn with a silver frost.
In order to ensure Lin Miao's safety, Errol took the field in person this time, leaving only a trace of magic power to disguise himself as the vice president of the association.
"Where do I start?"
The demon obeyed Lin Miao's command in everything.
Lin Miao allowed him to reinforce his protective shield as he analyzed, "I can sense something's wrong on the main fort's escalator and on the ground. I tested the water in the fountain, and the temperature is clearly not what it should be for this season... There's also a chilling feeling, like that of a red lotus pond."
"So I suspect the anomaly should be underground, especially the area below the main castle and the fountain," she said. "As for the entrance..."
Lin Miao smiled slyly: "The other day you took me to beat up the Capet couple, I took the opportunity to observe their room and found that there was a slight bulge on the wall behind the dressing table."
"Given how much they value secrecy, hiding the entrance in the bedroom is normal, right?"
"Yeah." Errol's eyes softened, "Miaomiao is really amazing."
...Don't say such things with that voice, Master Lustful! This is clearly a very exciting and dangerous situation, right? How can it be replaced by another kind of excitement? !
Having said that, Lin Miao's nervousness miraculously disappeared.
The three-headed dog would stand silently behind her, or calmly block her way.
With this idea in mind, Lin Miao and Errol skillfully knocked the Capet couple unconscious and moved the dressing mirror away.
After groping for a while, a rumbling sound was heard, and the wall moved forward to the right, and a dark, deep passage winding downward came into view.
The flames of hell ignited in the palm of Errol's hand, immediately illuminating a circular area with a radius of about two or three meters centered on him.
"Hold me tight," he said, squeezing his other hand between her fingers, filling the space between them.
The firelight reflected the image of their interlocked fingers on the stone wall.
The protection that the Capet couple provided for the underground secret room was somewhat beyond imagination. The mechanisms in the tunnel were all artificially designed, with all kinds of triggering points. They were also supported by spiritual power spells, which were quite targeted against demons.
Unable to use skills/magic to evade directly, the man and the demon had no choice but to step into many traps and suffered countless attacks along the way.
"Sure enough, the forces of light are involved." Lin Miao looked at Errol, who had always protected her well, and whose own spiritual energy was madly eroding, and her anger rose. "This is simply not something that a mere noble family could have built... They're conspiring."
"I'm afraid of alerting the enemy." Errol tried his best to calm the boiling power within him, not wanting Lin Miao to see him lose his composure due to a small human trap. The damage to his soul sea was almost fatal to his control of magic power.
"If it were only the Illuminati Association, it would be fine..."
Lin Miao was silent. She knew it was best not to alert the enemy, but there was always a voice urging her to speed up, reminding her that time was running out.
She can't wait.
A faint light appeared ahead. Lin Miao and Errol exchanged glances, becoming extremely alert. The demon silently concealed Lin Miao behind him, always ready for battle.
At the end of the tunnel is a dark room surrounded by marble tiles on all four sides.
Beneath the golden-trimmed arched ceiling, murals covered the walls on both sides, and in the center of the room stood a white jade platform.
The edge of the table was inlaid with a circle of purple gems, emitting a dazzling light, like a flowing purple river, illuminating the entire dark room.
Floating in the halo was a mask—or to be exact, half a mask.
On the snow-white bottom, dark purple lines cling to it like vines, forming strange patterns, sleeping silently in the light dust.
The expression in Lin Miao's eyes changed slightly, and he grabbed Errol's hand harder.
"What's wrong?" The devil looked at her worriedly. Lin Miao shook her head to indicate that everything was fine.
In the illusion, half of the devil's mask...why did it appear in the basement of the nobles in the royal city? Is it true or false?
Lin Miao's gaze fell on the murals on both sides.
Another mural.
This time, there are only two.
The seemingly complete but incomplete serial plot mural below the red lotus pond quickly flashed through Lin Miao's mind. She first looked at the pattern on the left.
The god holding a scepter and wearing a divine robe stood high in the sky, surrounded by light, followed by several six-winged angels; on the ground were densely packed his believers kneeling, with their arms raised high, as if celebrating his victory and offering him gratitude and faith.
It looks like a supplement to the scenes after the defeat of the Demon King in the six murals.
But putting this scene here... Lin Miao frowned and turned to another mural.
What surprised her a little was that there were no figures on the mural on the right.
The sky, mountains, rivers, magnificent palaces, and even the furnishings inside the palaces are all depicted.
Before Lin Miao could think about it, Errol jumped to the conclusion. "Demon King's Palace."
"Is the carving of the Demon King's Castle?"
"Hmm." Errol, through his dreams, recalled some scenes from a hundred years ago. "This is the Demon King's Palace before the war."
His tone was unkind. "The Demon King's Palace has many buildings and complex structures. To be able to handle the details so well... the person who carved the murals must have known the Demon King's Palace very well, or even been there many times."
“…” Lin Miao glanced back and forth at the two murals, becoming increasingly confused.
Finally, she looked at the half mask on the white jade table.
"When you let me into the illusion, I saw this mask—on the face of the Demon King," Lin Miao said, hesitantly. "Do you think... this half of the mask is real or fake?"
Errol's fingertips drew a streak of flame, and the light that just touched the edge of the mask was swallowed up.
"...It's a magic circle that drains power." His eyes darkened. "Another hellish magic."
"In other words, Cape is drawing power from this mask?" Lin Miao pursed her lips. "So, the mask is very likely real?"
"Not necessarily." Errol took a few steps closer. "The magic circle can also drain spiritual energy... It's easy to forge a mask."
He used his magic to draw an identification symbol, intending to inject it into the magic circle - at this moment, the halo began to shake violently, scattering irregular white lines in all directions.
Errol's face suddenly changed. He immediately stepped back and wanted to pull Lin Miao out of the room, but the thick black fog enveloped them in an instant.
A chilling atmosphere spread, and a nauseous feeling overwhelmed all five senses.
"The remnant soul of the Demon Realm..." Lin Miao looked at the scene that almost replicated the scene at the Jingyu Temple, with cold sweat on his palms.
The demon moved.
The waves of hellfire rolled and split the human-shaped black fog as thick as ink. The remaining souls were licked by the flames, and instantly evaporated into blue-gray smoke, which peeled off like burnt rags.
……not enough.
The residual souls are endless, harvesting one batch and regenerating another.
The three-headed dog's soul sea cannot deteriorate any further, Lin Miao thought calmly and opened the panel in his mind.
Activate skills——
The white lines emanating from the halo suddenly expanded, transforming into several strong ropes that swiftly wrapped around the demon battling the remnant soul, like a living thing. His limbs and waist were tightly strangled, the knots tightening layer by layer, causing his bones to crackle.
A purifying holy aura erupted, sending sharp pain through his limbs and bones. Errol jerked his head back, a low wail escaping his throat, mixed with heart-wrenching pain.
It happened in an instant, and Lin Miao didn't even have time to stop pressing down the thorny bushes.
The vines bound the residual soul and black fog in the dark room. Lin Miao immediately rushed towards the devil and caught his falling body.
She saw dark red and inky black alternating back and forth in the demon's narrow pupils, like two balls of fire and shadow fighting in the eye sockets; however, these colors quickly dimmed, and in just a moment, they were extinguished like a candle.
Errol collapsed completely in her arms and fell into a coma.
The white rope that bound the devil turned into flowing light again, flowing beside Lin Miao; the halo slowly condensed into a feather and fell into the palm of her hand.
White, light and beautifully shaped.
“…”
She stared at the feather for a long time, thinking about it for a long time, but it seemed like no time had passed.
Lin Miao took out the feather that the demon had found from the ring and stacked them together.
She closed her eyes, exerted force with her hands, and both feathers were broken in the middle at the same time.
The next moment, mist rose from the torn feather tube, swirling in the air, and gradually a human figure appeared.
A slim-fitting snow-white robe, tassels dangling from a dark gold waistband, and long silver hair flowing down...
Blue, calm eyes.
——Zile.
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