Chapter 1040 Faceless Man

Lingling turned the eight symmetrically arranged eyeballs on her face, her gaze shifted from the fine gold bell to the man lying in a pool of blood, and she suddenly felt a vicious pleasure.

If she remembers correctly, this feeling can be described by an idiom commonly used by drow, which seems to be called "schadenfreude"?

Most dark elves, especially female dark elves, are keen to "gloat", always ready to extract pleasure from the pain of others.

Lingling felt that these black-skinned chicks were more vicious than those demons in her hometown!

Perhaps because of living among the drows for a long time, Lingling was more or less subtly influenced by the drows, and gradually accepted the drows' life philosophy of "building happiness on top of other people's pain".

Looking at the man lying in a pool of blood, recalling the miserable scene of him being whipped by Claudia just now, Lingling felt a bit of vicious pleasure in her heart, and even a little worshiped her mistress.

Lingling raised her sickle-like forelimbs, and slowly approached the fainted man.

Instead of letting him continue to lose blood and suffer endlessly, which is pitiful, it is better to eat him, the long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain, and save the hot blood from being wasted in vain.

Lingling doesn't like eating dark elves very much. In comparison, "humans" who are also humanoids are not as delicious as demons, but at least they are more delicious than black skins.

Lingling felt that perhaps these human explorers came from the surface world, and their bodies contained sunlight, which made her feel very warm after eating, not as humid and cold as drow.

"Go away!"

The Hydra whip whizzed and swept over, and lashed Lingling's back firmly. With such strong force, it threw the huge Demon Hunting Spider and rolled it far away.

Lingling let out a scream mixed with pain and annoyance, and the burning pain in her back made her tremble uncontrollably, but when she met the sullen eyes of the hostess, the resentment in her eyes was immediately replaced by fear, and she slowly crawled backwards, Huddled in the depths of the darkness, avoiding the fierce stare of the hostess.

Lingling is a very smart witch-hunting spider. After being whipped, she thought about it painfully, and guessed that the mistress kept the prey that she had knocked down and did not let herself eat it, so it must be useful.

What happened next confirmed her guess.

Claudia stared thoughtfully at Arnold Laval, who was unconscious in a pool of blood.

The ebony scepter tightly held in her hand was so black that it seemed to absorb all the surrounding light. Nine animated long whips in the shape of poisonous snakes hung down from the head of the scepter.

Claudia licked her lips, the royal blue lipstick complemented her bright and neat white teeth.

"Pyrrhus, what's the result of the detection?"

"Honorable Highness Claudia, I'm sorry, but it is still impossible to determine where the cunning dwarf thief is."

The drow mage in the cloak, holding the scrying crystal ball in both hands, bowed and stood behind Claudia.

The magic glow from the crystal ball illuminated the face hidden by the hood of the cloak like a bloody mass of vomit, dotted with two slightly reflective eyes, and the mouth and nostrils were just black holes.

Just one look at this face is enough to cause nightmares.

Most residents of Oaknell have heard of the name of "The Faceless Man" Pyrrhus Bellamy, not because of his powerful mana, but because of the fact that this man provided a place for those ignorant young people in the Warlock School. A living example of the disastrous consequences of summoning a monster beyond their control.

In fact, Pyrrhus himself was not sure what monster he summoned from the bottomless abyss on that unlucky summoning night fifteen years ago.

He got the monster's real name from the notes of an ancient summoner, thought it was the "melting wax demon", so he prepared rich sacrifices, intending to entertain "Rose's maid", maybe he could get some benefits.

The spell-casting ceremony was successful, but what he summoned was not the melted wax monster he expected. The monster looked more like a naked giantess, but when her figure clearly appeared from the magic circle, Pyrrhus almost missed Frightened out on the spot!

That monster has a charming and charming figure, almost every inch of skin from head to toe is covered by countless large and small human face tumors.

Pyrrhus was not sure whether she was a giantess afflicted with sores all over her body, or if she was not human at all, and those tumors with painful expressions were the real body, like bricks piled up to make a house, These tumors together form a building that resembles a human body, and form the "Brood Will".

Pyrrhus didn't even have a chance to ask his own question, he was scared out of his wits by the yell of the monster covered in human face, and tried to turn around and flee from the summoning place.

However, as soon as he moved, all the tumors on the monster's face showed anger, they opened their mouths collectively, and spit out pungent acid at him...

When Pyrrhus woke up from the coma, the monster had long since disappeared, and the price he paid for this reckless act was that his face was ruined, and his silver hair was also corroded into dark brown by acid. "Faceless Man" was a nickname he was deeply ashamed of.

"Why is there no result?"

Claudia raised two silver eyebrows, showing displeasure.

"Pyrrhus, with your spellcasting ability, you won't be able to find any clues about the thief. Give me a reasonable explanation."

"Your Highness, there may be two factors."

"First, the guy who sneaked into the Spider Academy to steal is good at illusions and disguises. We don't know his origin, and we don't even know that 'Berlin' is his real name or a pseudonym. We can use the 'Scrying' technique on this seriously lacking target. ’, the information obtained cannot be very accurate.”

"Secondly, the thief is extremely vigilant and cunning. He not only figured out the route of sneaking in and stealing in advance, but after he succeeded in stealing, he also specially added a special spell to avoid detection, unless we can try to break through his protection. Measures must be taken, otherwise the 'Scry' will not be able to lock onto him."

Before Pyrrhus reported the bad news to Claudia, he prepared the words to excuse himself in advance.

He has followed the princess for many years, and he knows that she is not as violent and willful as the rumors outside, but is actually a very reasonable woman.

As long as he can attribute his failure to objective factors instead of his own mistakes, no matter how annoyed Claudia is, she will not use him as a "punching bag".

Sure enough, after listening to his explanation, Claudia just sighed in disappointment, did not criticize him too much, and called another capable general under her command.

"Warris, is there any news from the hunting team?"