city ​​of sanctuaries

Chapter 700 The Castle
"Little wine, little wine!"

"Huh? Is it dawn?"

In a daze, Xiaojiu fell asleep on the back of the griffin at some point, and when she woke up when she heard someone calling her name, the next day was already fully lit.

Looking up, Xiaojiu couldn't help but rub his eyes when he saw the outline of the city exposed in the distance.

Crowe County, here we come.

The three griffins stopped steadily at the griffin parking spot in the city.

"I'm leaving now. It's been a hard day. You guys have a good rest. I'll bring you something delicious when you come back next time." Xiaojiu groped for the wings of the griffin, and reluctantly greeted the three griffins. .

Xue Yang shook his head helplessly, and reached out to greet Xiaojiu at the entrance of the breeding point, "Xiaojiu! Hurry up!"

I don't know how the shadow following Fang Tian communicates with the Lord of Shadows. Just after walking out of the animal pen, the imperial guards are already waiting for everyone at the door of the room.

"Mr. Fang Tian, ​​I am Rom, captain of the Empire's Third Knight Guard, please follow us."

The captain of the guard, Ham, stood beside the horse, leading the way in front of Fang Tian and the others.

Although he gave enough respect, Xue Yang still felt that he was being watched by the people around him. It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling. Xue Yang asked, "Wait, where's Gelu Gelu?"

"Sorry, I don't know, I was just ordered to take a few people to a place."

Seeing that the captain of the guard said not far away, Xue Yang stopped asking, and was going to follow the situation carefully.

Walking along the street to the outskirts of the city, an abandoned old castle on the outskirts gradually appeared in front of it. This old castle looked old, and it seemed that no one had taken care of it for a long time. The outside walls were full of vines.

Xue Yang whispered in Fang Tian's ear, "Have you been here before? It doesn't seem to be where the city lord lives, right?"

Fang Tian focused his eyes on the old castle, and responded: "Well, what we want to see is the Lord of Shadows, and it is normal that he is not with Duke Nicholas."

While talking, the guards in front stopped.

The captain of the guard walked up to Fang Tian and bowed respectfully, "Several distinguished guests, this is the castle of Duke Nicholas. Duke Nicholas let you enter the castle to rest. I am very sorry, we Outsiders cannot enter the castle, and there is no way to bring a few people in."

"What about Duke Nicholas?" Xue Yang looked at him and asked.

"Sorry, we don't know where Duke Nicholas is now, we just received an order to lead a few people here."

After finishing speaking, the guard climbed back on the horse, waved his hand, and said to the guards behind, "Go!"

After receiving the order, the imperial soldiers stepped on their horses at the same time, and hurriedly left along the path they had come from.

Soon, there were only Fang Tian and the other three left outside the castle.

"Run so fast?"

Xue Yang muttered, then stretched out his hand and pushed Fang Tian next to him, and said, "Fang Tian, ​​do you think they seem to be afraid of this ancient castle?"

Fang Tian nodded, Xue Yang was right, these guards left obviously much faster.

Xiaojiu looked up at the gloomy old castle in front of him, and also felt a chill rising from behind him.

"It's all here, what are you afraid of!"

Xue Yang pushed the big sword on his shoulder, then stepped forward and reached out to push open the iron door outside the castle.

"Crack la la la..."

The iron door at the entrance of the castle was wrapped with thick chains. The chains were already rusty. With the push, the chains on them rang together.

"Isn't it? Locked? How long has no one been here?"

Looking at the rusty iron rope, Xue Yang looked confused.

At this moment, the shadow behind Fang Tian shook uncontrollably again.

Seeing this, Xue Yang and Xiaojiu took a few steps back.

The shadow gradually separated from Fang Tian's shadow, and condensed into a human figure in the open space.

Xiaojiu looked at the shadow nervously. It seemed that the shadow was suppressed by some special force during the day, and it became much thinner. It didn't look as scary as when he saw it last night.

"Welcome to the castle of the Lord of Shadows, everyone, please follow me."

As the shadow said, he walked forward, directly passed through the gap in the iron door, stood on the other side of the iron door, then turned around, and lightly pulled the chain on the door.

slap...

The chain wrapped around the door suddenly lost its strength and fell to the ground.

Xue Yang looked at Fang Tian, ​​as if to cheer himself up, and said, "What are you afraid of! Let's leave as soon as we say!"

Before Xiaojiu could react, Xue Yang had already followed the black shadow into the castle.

"Let's go too."

Fang Tian took a look at Xiaojiu, and followed with strides.

"Wait for me!"

Xiaojiu hurriedly chased after him.

The outside of the castle looks gloomy, but it is not as scary as it looks from the outside after entering. It is just extraordinarily old, and occasionally sunlight comes in through the windows, dispelling a little bit.

Under the guidance of the shadow, everyone entered the second-floor hall of the castle.

This hall looks very strange at first glance, the interior is extremely empty, there are almost no decorations, weird bonfires are burning in the four corners of the hall, and there is a stone seat in the center of the room, and an invisible man sits on the stone seat. people of appearance.

He was wearing a large purple coat, and his face was hidden under a hat, making it difficult to see his face clearly.

Taking a few steps forward, Fang Tian realized that it wasn't that he couldn't see his face clearly, but that he had no face at all, to be precise, it was just a black shadow.

Xiao Jiu was a little frightened by the weird atmosphere, followed behind Xue Yang and Fang Tian, ​​poking his head out from time to time to take a look.

He is the Lord of Shadows?
The person who pushed Count Nicholas to seize the throne behind his back?

Fang Tian narrowed his eyes, the Lord of Shadow gave him a strange feeling, unlike other high-level creatures, Fang Tian could not feel any power from the Lord of Shadow in front of him.

Yes, he may be a shadow.

The gray shadow walking in front of everyone stopped and bowed: "Lord of Shadows, I have brought you the people you need to see."

The Lord of Shadows sitting on the throne raised his hand, and the gray shadow obediently stepped aside.

"Who is that, you asked us to come! We are here now!" Xue Yang stepped forward, raised his voice, and said loudly, "We are not afraid of you, just say what you want to do!"

"Welcome here, adventurers." The Lord of Shadows stretched out his hand, "You should also know that I have been following you since you killed Colom in the grocery store."

From the sound of the voice, the voice of the Lord of Shadows is not scary, but rather comfortable, and even has some weird bewitching abilities, making people unconsciously relax their vigilance and want to follow what he said.

(End of this chapter)