Chapter 1457 Door to Shadow

Just as Hao Ren guessed, the castle on the hill was Vivian's sleeping place.

Strictly speaking, it is the entrance to the Sleeping Land.

After some rigorous deductions and discussions, Hao Ren and Hesiana re-planned the entire process of opening the seal and entering the shadow world. In order to avoid long nights and dreams—the demon hunters might follow them at any time—they decided to wait until dawn. Just enter the castle. Although the shadow power at night is very strong and will cause certain difficulties in opening the seal, Hesiana has decided to use her own shadow magic to replace the key. Her power will also be strengthened at night, so it doesn't matter.

Harroun Castle - it was once the property of a human noble, but in the end it became the property of a vampire several times, although the ignorant and reckless young vampire was later ruined by Vivian's debilitating aura. But at least when he first took over this castle, his family was quite wealthy, so he renovated this human castle in an extremely luxurious way, which can still be seen even after the castle was abandoned and the walls collapsed. The entire castle consists of four huge towers and two main structures. Between the two rectangular main buildings is a wide corridor. This structure makes the entire castle look like an "I" shape when viewed from the air. The four towers are distributed at the four corners of this I-shape, which looks extremely magnificent.

Of course, more than half of this magnificent structure has collapsed, and the entire superstructure of the castle has basically become decayed with the weathering of time: originally a fortress made of stone would not decay so quickly, but the lingering presence of this The dark power in this land has accelerated the decline of everything. Although it has only been a hundred years, the rock structure of the castle has been riddled with holes as if it had gone through four or five centuries.

"There are many ghost legends about this castle in the local area," Hesiana has been active in this area for some time, and coupled with her deliberate collection of intelligence, she knows a lot about things related to the castle. When entering the ruins of the castle, he introduced it by the way, "Some brave guys will venture in, trying to find some noble relics or rags that can be sold for money, but very few people can go back intact, even the lucky ones who come back alive. Claiming that they encountered ghosts and other evil things in the castle, in fact, it was all the power of shadow that was at work."

As he said that, the little bat spirit curled his lips: "Tsk tsk, I still hope to find treasures here. I wonder if this territory was so poor back then. When Haron himself left, he couldn't find a single copper plate in the castle. ."

Hao Ren did not respond, but looked up: they were passing through the main building in the front half of the castle. The high Gothic roof had collapsed, leaving only some rugged skeletons hanging criss-cross in the sky, tattered and twisted. Strips of cloth and spider webs extend from the tall skeletons to the walls on both sides, looking desolate and gloomy. Due to the collapse of the entire dome, the moonlight could shine into the vestibule of the castle almost without any obstruction. The originally bright and bright moonlight seemed to undergo some mysterious change when passing through the castle: it took on a lifeless gray-white color. , the light was terrifyingly cold, it was a real cold, Hao Ren could even feel the real cold touch of the moonlight on his skin.

Before entering the castle, the moon had sunk to near the horizon, but after entering the castle, it hung in the middle of the sky. This was also a rather obvious anomaly.

"In places related to Lady Vivian, the moonlight is never normal," Hesiana noticed Hao Ren's gaze and explained casually, "We should be lucky that at least the moonlight is not red - otherwise we would have to turn around and run away. ”

"Vivian would find such a gorgeous place to sleep," Lily said with some surprise as she carried Hasselblad, who was in a deep coma, and followed the team. "I thought she could only sleep in a cave or something like that." Where is the place..."

"She moved in after the castle was abandoned for the first time," Hesiana sighed. "At that time, this place was already in ruins."

Lily: "...that makes sense."

"Where is the entrance to the Shadow Fortress?" Hao Ren looked around curiously. He could already feel that the castle was being controlled by the powerful shadow force, but he did not observe any obvious spatial breaking points. Obviously, Vivian had made considerable preparations before sleeping this time. The place where she slept this time was not as easy to deal with as the cave in Siberia.

"The castle is divided into two. The castle in the real world corresponds to the light, so of course the 'shadow' castle is on its 'back'," Hesiana smiled, "Just in front, there is a pool in the castle garden. , the entrance is in the reflection of the pool.”

Lily muttered as she listened: "It's this kind of nagging thing again... I'm the worst at dealing with this kind of thing."

Before she finished speaking, she felt the Hasselblad on her back suddenly move slightly. Immediately afterwards, the old hunter woke up slowly from his coma. Seeing the witches surrounding him and Hessiana leading the way, Hasselblad subconsciously He wanted to get his weapon, but found that his hands and feet were bound by a strange energy field, and he couldn't even use the slightest strength. He suddenly shouted: "You..."

"Hey-bang!!"

"Speaking of which, I feel quite embarrassed," Lily stuck out her tongue, "I feel so pitiful about him."

The witches were shocked by Hasselblad's sudden awakening, even Hessiana, but when they saw Lily knocking Hasselblad out with a brick, they all showed extremely strange expressions, and Mrs. Mary also He sighed: "This is probably the worst demon hunter I have ever seen in my life..."

Hao Ren looked up at the sky and didn't know what to say, so he was thinking about how to explain to Hasselblad what happened along the way after he was "pulled in"... By the way, the old hunter wouldn't be so ashamed and angry that he would draw his sword and kill himself. ?

Under the leadership of Hesiana, everyone soon arrived at the back garden of the castle and saw the pool that could serve as a passage between the two worlds.

It is located slightly west of the center of the "I"-shaped structure of the castle, surrounded by a large area of ​​withered thorns and twisted vines. The pool has a marble outer edge, but in the depression in the center of the pool, there is no trace of it. dripping water.

Without water, there would naturally be no reflection.

Hao Ren cast a questioning look at Hesiana. He knew that since the little bat spirit brought everyone here, this pool must have another ingenuity. Sure enough, Hesiana was not surprised at all when she saw the dry pool. She just stepped forward, bit her finger, and dropped a drop of blood into the dry pool.

Then she stepped aside and looked up at the gray-white moon hanging in the sky: "Without the key, we can only borrow the power of the moonlight... Lady Vivian, if you can hear me, wish me success. …”

After saying that, she took a gentle step and began to walk around the pool at an extremely slow speed, while whispering an ancient spell.

Something incredible happened.

A thin layer of sparkling light suddenly began to ripple in the already dry pool. The gray-white moonlight seemed to be bound by invisible forces, condensing into a beam of light that shone straight on the bottom of the pool. The light seemed to condense into a liquid state, and followed the sea. Seanna walked slowly, and it began to accumulate in the pool at a speed visible to the naked eye. It became more solid every second, and eventually became as substantial as real running water!

As Hessiana took the last step, she returned to the starting position, exactly completing a circle around the pool, and the "moonlight water" in the pool was just full. The water surface was almost level with the edge of the pool, like a mirror. Still.

Hao Ren saw a clear reflection in the mirror-like water surface. In the reflection, towering towers and majestic castles appeared. However, at the corresponding locations in the real world, those towers and castle structures had long since decayed and collapsed. More than half.

Obviously, what the reflection reflects is definitely not the real world, at least not the real world in this time and space.

"The shadow passage has been opened. Beyond the water is another space." Hesiana wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Because it was opened by abnormal means, I am not sure what the current situation is on the other side. If we are lucky, we I won't run into those patrolling soulless guards, but if the wizard Barn has used the key to activate the defense of the Shadow Fortress... I will be ready for a fierce battle. I will need to spend a lot of time after entering the Shadow World. It takes effort to gain control of the Soulless Guards.”

"This has been expected a long time ago," Hao Ren nodded, "What should we do now?"

"It's easy, just follow me."

Hesiana said as she stood on the edge of the pool.

Then she fell straight towards the "water surface".

There was no splashing or splashing sound. She seemed to blend into the water. The moment she came into contact with the reflection, she disappeared silently into the water without even causing a ripple.

Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other, and then Hao Ren took the first step forward, imitating Hesiana's movements and falling straight towards the water.

He also successfully passed through that "border".

"You go in first!" Lily bared her teeth at a group of witches, "to prevent you from escaping!"

The witches had no choice but to come to the water's edge one by one, and then "fall into the water" straight away.

Lily was the last one to come to the edge of the pool. Looking at the calm moonlight water, the husky girl wrinkled her nose.

"I don't like water..."

Then she closed her eyes and jumped down too.