The Demon Hunter

Lich Knight led them into the fog. In other words, the fog spread out in front of Knight, revealing a void, and then closed behind the last Cologne.

"Don't walk around." Knight said, and turned his head. Even though the shadow of the hood covered his expression, Cologne still clearly felt his warning eyes, "This is not a fog formed by condensation of water vapor. , This is the dead air of the undead that is thick to a certain extent. This is the most wonderful air for us undead, but it is not so wonderful for you living beings. Moreover, the undead hiding in the dead air can not Not friendly."

As if to prove what Knight said, there was a sound of "click click" in the mist, and a skeleton appeared. This is the lowest skeleton soldier among the undead. In Cologne's imagination, they should be Fragile, powerless and defeated, even if no external force is needed, it will fall apart at any time.However, at least the one in front of him is not like that, the color of its bones is a translucent white that can almost be described as beautiful, it is tall and steady, and the crimson bright spot soul light in the deep eye sockets makes it very dangerous.

It moved its jaw a few times, but most of the people present couldn't understand that it wasn't a prophecy from the vocal cords, and the one who could understand didn't translate it for them.Then the skeleton walked away, and brought a large group of teammates standing behind it, who hadn't been noticed by everyone before.

"A young guy who was born here, but he's smart and ambitious. It's a pity that Noel doesn't want his subordinates, at least not yet." Knight seemed to be talking to himself, but he seemed to be threatening again They hurry to find the missing necromancer.

Then they encountered some other undead in the mist, and there were also ghosts that shone with blue light and always screamed hoarsely, wrapped in a ragged cloak that looked like a lich's dress, floating Soul Eater - Nate seems to hate this thing, he smashed it the first time he saw it.

The lich didn't bring them into the castle, but to a gazebo, which was supposed to be a garden, but only black thorns grew out of the land polluted by the dead air.

"Barclay disappeared around here." Knight pointed to an open space, where the black thorns had turned into burnt yellow, and when they stepped on them, they immediately turned into fly ash and disappeared.

"No one, no, Undead, did you find something wrong?" Ansel grabbed some black thorns, "And this is the only trace left in this place?"

"No, no undead found anything wrong. It's just that Noel felt that Barclay went back a bit late, and sent a few descendants to look for him, only to find that he was missing. Regarding the traces, we are actually more strange than you. Barclay is a A powerful warrior, it's hard to imagine what could take him away without disturbing any other undead."

Ansel sighed depressingly, he didn't think he was a material to be a law enforcement officer, especially the kidnapped was an undead.Then he looked at Cologne—if this guy hadn't suddenly made them agree to this matter, he still had a chance to make that Alexander III change his mind and give up his plan to involve them in this matter, but... …

Ansel suddenly noticed that Cologne's eyes were not too much, they were curious and eager to try, and a little bit clear.

"What did you think?" He walked over and asked.

Ke Luoyin was taken aback, obviously he was immersed in his own thoughts just now: "Maybe we don't need to spend energy guessing how those people did it, but to consider another issue."

"What's the problem?" Ansel was a little confused by his words.

"May I ask a question?" Cologne looked at Knight, and the Lich was obviously attracted by the conversation between the two, he nodded, "Does Barclay have a fixed habit, such as coming out every day to circle around?" Go around a fixed route, and this is one of them?"

"Yes, Barclay was originally Knoll's Guards General, and that was his duty during his lifetime and after his death."

"How long did it take him to patrol here? And how long was he late that day before His Majesty Noel sent someone to look for him? Then what did you do, and how long did it take?"

"He was late for about an hour, or a little more. It took us half an hour to search the entire imperial tomb before we found out that he was missing. After that, the palace was notified. After 15 minutes, the whole city was under martial law, and then you saw The nationwide martial law. And today is the third day of the nationwide martial law.”

"It seems that you have indeed thought of something." Ansel said with certainty, and at the same time he became more curious about Cologne, so what exactly did the mage who made him stuff into his mind?

"It's just a guess. I don't know what method they used to capture Barclay Knight, because there is too little information. But from my standpoint, I can think of several methods for them to hide him. The simplest and the highest success rate , is to put him in a box that can isolate the breath of the undead, and hide him underground."

"Darkhan's soldiers searched every secret room and basement." Knight's tone seemed a little disappointed.

"Who said we should hide him in the basement? Just dig a hole and bury it. And I think there are many ways for mages or others to cover up the traces on the ground, right? Then those hijackers—if you If you can be sure that what they want is indeed a 'live' Necromancer - just wait for the right moment, dig him up and transport him away."

"..." Lich was silent for a while, "I have to admit, the method you mentioned is very simple, but... very feasible."

"If you want to find him, you have to hurry up because it's been three days and there are many ways to get him out."

"Let's go, go see Alexander!" I didn't see the Lich making any special movements, the ground had already cracked, and white bones broke out. They were several tall bone horses, and the black thorns on the ground squirmed and gathered together. The poisonous thorns wrapped around the body of the bone horse turned into a simple saddle, "Get on the horse!"

"Wait, you have to at least let us know what that knight looks like? Otherwise, even if we meet him face to face, we won't be able to recognize him!" Almost as soon as they got on the horses, the bone horses started to run, and An Searle gave Cologne a thumbs up, then shouted at the Lich's back, but the Lich didn't answer him.

They returned to the entrance just now, and before Alexander III could walk away, the Lich hurriedly chatted with him and several other men dressed as officials, and then they all moved.The lich came back into the mist, and the officials sprinted to issue the mission, while Alexander III came towards them.

"I have to admit that before this, I didn't expect you to be able to help. We are even ready to go to war with the entire continent." The emperor looked at them and said.

"We are very happy that we saved the world." Ansel replied angrily.

The emperor smiled indifferently: "In order to express my gratitude, I hope to invite a few of you to the palace as guests. But please forgive me, I can't accompany you in person."

Ansel nodded, but he didn't say anything harsh this time. After all, living in the palace is definitely much better than living in a small hotel that is already full of people.

So the emperor left, and they were taken by a carriage to the palace castle, but the place turned out to be surprisingly simple, at least compared with the residences of royal families in other countries.In fact, in this huge palace, only a living room, a separate bathroom, and a cloakroom are the emperor's private space.The largest areas are those of Darkan's administrative agencies and the highest military agencies, and the kitchen, dining room, guest room, servant's room and so on.

They were arranged in the guest room. Before dinner, a servant asked if they would take them to visit the castle carefully. Of course, they were not allowed to enter some special areas.

Lucy and Evan refused. Lucy didn't know the reason, and Evan obviously had a conflict with himself as a priest but wanted to save an undead, but for a child of his age, There should be conflicts.So finally Ansel, Cologne and Lance followed the servants and started to visit.

The weapons showroom was the first stop. In this slightly militaristic country, the weapons displayed here were absolutely wonderful. The three men who were also not pacifists, including Lance, all stared at them.Then there is the art gallery, uh... The three of them obviously don't have much artistic talent, so they all looked a little drowsy until the servant introduced a certain portrait to them.

"Your Majesty Noel, one of our greatest monarchs." The servant's eyes were definitely shining with stars of admiration.The man in the painting is wearing a pure black shirt and pure black trousers, with one hand on his waist and the other hand on the hilt of the long sword on his waist. His long black hair is blowing in the wind, gloomy and weird, but gentle and profound His blood-red eyes gazed into the distance, a charming and heartbreaking beauty...

Apparently this is after he's been cursed, but at least visually, he's not losing his mind.

"Is there a portrait of Lord Barclay here?" Ansel asked, purely curious, and just like he shouted to the Lich not long ago, he didn't want to be face to face with the other party without knowing what he was facing. Who is it.

"Of course, and there are many. His Majesty Noel doesn't like to draw portraits of himself, but he likes to draw Lord Barclay very much." The servant said with a smile, and opened a door in the art gallery, "Actually, I would like to thank A few, after all, even we don't always get to see this."

The entire corridor was filled with paintings of the knight.And it has to be said that Barclay is more ordinary than they imagined. Of course he is also very handsome, but compared with that emperor, he is the ordinary one--short gray hair, steady chestnut eyes, Tightly pursed pale lips, almost 80.00% of the protagonists of knight biographical novels are like this.

However, every painting here is him. The one standing next to the steed wearing a full suit of armor should be someone before the expedition, and the one wearing a leather hunting suit with a bow and arrow is obviously hunting. The dirty shirt and trousers His face was covered in sweat as if he had just finished a training session.

Then there are those more hidden paintings, sleeping in the moonlight, the quilt is only on the chest so that the scarred shoulder and one arm are exposed, and the scarred body under the spouting beast is bathed in the hot water in the marble bathhouse Soothing, and even...

Cologne was stunned. Although he had no actual combat experience, he had watched quite a few love action movies.The painting in front of me is only the upper body of a man, and the expression on the other side seems to be in the middle of an orgasm.That blood emperor doesn't have any quirks, does he?Would he be willing to let a painter look at his lover's expression at that time, and then leave the painting in the castle for other people to see later?

"Why is it a little strange?" Cologne heard Ansel say.

"what?"

"It's okay." Ansel blushed and shook his head.He couldn't say that he would feel weird blush and heartbeat when looking at a painting, could he? ——As a chick, he hasn't seen what this expression is, but just thinks it's "weird".

"These are all authentic works of His Majesty Noel." said the servant who had stopped introducing them since he came in.

Only then did Cologne realize that there was a small signature in the slippery corner: Noel, for my love.This can explain why these paintings are so vivid.

"Why didn't he take the pictures with him?" Ansel asked.

"Originally, His Majesty wanted to take it away together." The servant made a gesture of please continue to read, so they also moved on.

Perhaps only in the magical world can such a long corridor be built. It is hard to imagine how many oil paintings are hung here.However, Cologne had some doubts about the love between these two people—in fact, he didn’t believe in love at all before that—and he no longer doubted it. Only by truly loving and observing with his heart can he paint these things with a brush.

Cologne stopped in front of a portrait again, and it was another painting of Barclay sleeping, or in a coma, because his chest was wrapped with a thick but still bloody bandage.Ke Luoyin suddenly felt a pain, but it was not the injured person in the painting, but the painter emperor.

No matter how old he was when he became a vampire, then his future appearance will always stay at that step, whether it is being cursed or being embraced for the first time.In the painting of the blood emperor outside, he looks about 25 or even younger.But this knight, his first picture was about 40 or so, and now in this picture, he has creases around his eyes, and his forehead and cheeks are no longer smooth and tight. Is he in his [-]s or [-]s?

He gets hurt, he's aging, he's not embraced—yes, Barclay isn't a vampire.

Ke Luoyin found that he had been ignoring this point, probably because he was not very interested in the love story of those two people before?It is still very difficult for him to live, and he can't control other people's romance. Until now, when he looks at these paintings, the kind of beauty makes him long for it to the point of jealousy...

Then Cologne continued to walk, and Barclay's aging in the painting became more and more obvious-Noel was cursed before the war of annihilation, but just that war lasted for decades and generations, if Buckley Ray is a human being, and his aging is inevitable!

Finally, they came to the last painting. It seemed that aging was inevitable, and death was inevitable. It was a thin and shriveled old man, no different from any other old man. He was lying on a big velvet bed with his arms crossed. On his chest, the sunlight streamed in through the open bed and shone on him.

If you haven't seen the previous one, this should be a painting that makes people smile comfortably, an old man who passed away peacefully in his sleep...

But Ke Luoyin felt his heart throbbing, and his eyes were blurred. He touched his eyes, and couldn't believe that he was crying.

"Your Majesty did not give Lord Barclay the first embrace. Those who were first embraced by him were all sinful people." The descendants could not defy their "parents". For the emperor who threw aside his reason, bloodthirsty eternal life was punishment. Not a reward.So he watched his lover get injured, aged, and died, leaving only these paintings, hoping that they could accompany him in his eternal future.

"But Lord Barclay returned to the human world from the cemetery on the third day of his burial."

Undead Knight——was a powerful warrior during his lifetime, but after his death, because of his last wish and strong obsession, he returned...

"Originally His Majesty wanted to destroy them, because he didn't want Lord Barclay to be sad when he saw them. But Lord Barclay kept them, all of them, because it was part of their love." See you'."

After leaving that corridor, it happened to be meal time.The three people walking towards the restaurant were silent, Lance stroked his chest, his eyes were full of doubts and vague longing.The smile on Ansel's lips was relieved and sour, and seemed to be caught in some memory.And Ke Luoyin was thinking over and over again about the clues he had obtained at this stage, wondering if he had missed something—this was the first time he had seen such a beautiful emotion with his own eyes, he wanted to put aside those utilitarian things, Do what you can to protect this beauty.